Harsha Kotthapalli
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Win / loss: why deals were really won and lost.

Buyers who already decided tell you what actually happened. Sourced from your deal list and short calls with the buyers; where there is no CRM, your own recollection, written down first, does the job.

Win / loss12 deals

Chose nothing

Asked someone they knew

Stayed on the employer scheme

Lost to a competitor

Six of eight gave a different reason.

Twelve losses. None of them to a competitor.

The full output carries where the twelve went, the reasons table and the quotes.

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The output at a glance · built on WealthKarma

How it gets made

What goes in

Closed deals
Buyer conversations
Your recorded reasons
Call recordings

Won, lost, and went quiet

What comes out

The pre-call log

The interview guide

The report

Reusable every quarter

How long

2weeks

start to finish

a few hours plus the calls

The output, in full

Built on WealthKarma, a retirement app for Gulf expats. Every count is real and every gap is marked as a gap.

Win / loss12 deals · 8 buyers · Aug 2026
01 · Where the twelve went

Chose nothing

Asked someone they knew

Stayed on the employer scheme

Lost to a competitor

02 · Why you thought you lost, and why you did

Six of eight gave a different reason.

What you wrote down
What they told us
Too expensive
Didn't know where to start
Went quiet
Asked a friend instead
Not the right time
Didn't trust an app with it

You blamed price

Buyers who named price

03 · Why, in their words
“I signed up and then just… didn't. Nobody told me what the first step was.”
“My colleague uses a guy. I'd rather sit across a table from someone.”
“I get the gratuity at the end. I assumed that was the pension.”
04 · The finding
Twelve losses. None of them to a competitor.
05 · What can't be known
Four of the twelve wouldn't take a call.
Twelve deals is a pattern, not a statistic.
Every deal here is pre-launch.

Where it sits

Research

Compete

Position

Message

Launch

Measure

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